Base-ball glove.



J. GAMBLE.

BASE BALL GLOVE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

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JOHN GAMBLE, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORG-E'A. REACH,OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASE-BALL G-LQV E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

I Zen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county ofPhiladelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Base-Ball Gloves, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to base ball gloves.

The object of my invention is to produce a base ball glove which may beheld comfortably in the preferred position on the hand of the wearer toreceive the impact of a caught ball.

A further object of my invention is to produce a glove of said characterprovided with means for holding same upon the hand by contracting sameabout the knuckles of the back of the hand to prevent its displacementfrom the preferred position thereon, and a still further object of myinvention is to provide a more simple, cheap and eflicient glove of saidclass than has heretofore been produced.

To these ends my invention includes the combination and arrangement ofcomponent parts to be hereinafter described and more particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, Figure l is aperspective view of the back of a base ball glove embodying thepreferred form of my invention: Fig. 2 is a similar View of a modifiedform of my invention.

Base ball gloves of preferred form are constructed of an integral frontpiece of flexible material forming the palm and finger portions whichmay be lapped over to form the back of the four or outer finger, andhaving the back of the hand portion and the backs and sides of thefinger portions formed of sectional pieces or fourchettes which areunited by longitudinal seams of stitching. The backs of such gloves arecut away at their inner ends at the wrist and provided with a strap andbuckle or button or lacing strings to fasten them upon the hand of thewearer at the wrist such fastening means extending across the cut-outportion of the glove.

As heretofore constructed, and thus described, the wrist strap and othermentioned fastening means secured the glove very loosely upon the hand,and in violent and sometimes sudden movement of the wearer, the glovemay become displaced on the hand so that the palm structure is notpositioned over the palm of the hand, and in attempting to catch a ballan error results. For the purpose of obviating the looseness thusdescribed, I provide means for securing such gloves about the back ofthe hand below the cut-out portion.

In Fig. l of the drawings is illustrated one form of my invention inwhich the back 1 of the glove is adjustably secured upon the hand by thetransverse strap 2 and buckle 3. As shown, the strap is secured in theseam 4 which united the sections 5 and 6 which form the back of thefirst and second fingers, respectively, positioned immediately in therear of the knuckles of the hand at the base of the fingers. By suchconstruction the back of the glove may be adjust-ably contracted aroundthe broad part ofthe hand and behind substantially the projectingknuckles and thus held comfortably in the desired position.

In the modified form of my invention shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings,the back 14 of the glove is provided with a row of eyelets 7 adjacent toits rear edge in which pucker strings 8 are laced and secured at theirouter ends on the outer sections of the glove. Said strings may be drawnto contract the back of the glove over the back of the hand and knottedto secure same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tobe secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A base ball glove, comprising a front portion and a back portion offlexible material having a cut-out portion at its inner end adjacent tothe wrist, continuous finger pieces, and means for adjustablycontracting the back portion above the cut-out portion substantiallybehind the projecting knuckles of the hand to secure the glove on thehand, substantially as described.

2. A base ball glove, comprising a front hand for adjustably contractingthe back of portion and a back portion of flexible 1nathe glove tosecure same on the hand, sulo terial having a cut-out portion at itsinner stantially as described.

end adjacent to the Wrist, continuous finger JOHN GAMBLE. 5 portions,and a strap and buckle on the back Witnesses:

portion above the out-out portion substan- H. E. SMITH,

tially behind the projecting knuckles of the ROBT F. NIXON, J r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

